Ulster Scots

The Ulster Scots are an ethnic group found in Northern Ireland, descended mostly from Protestant Lowland Scots from Galloway and Ayrshire who migrated to the government-sanctioned Plantation of Ulster in the 1600s, and the Ulster Scots have been a majority in the population of Northern Ireland as well as a significant ethnic group in the early United States (the "Scots-Irish"), Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, and other British Commonwealth regions. 5,393,554 live in the USA and millions elsewhere, with most being Presbyterian or adhering to the Church of Ireland.